Skein-package.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904 R. A. BONNER.

SKEIN PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT A. BONNER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO BELD- ING BROS. & COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N- Y., A CORPORATION.

SKElN-PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,791, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed May 31, 1904. Serial No. 210,432. (No model.)

To all whont it Wtaty concern:

Be it knownthat I, ROBERT A. BONNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Skein- Packages, of which the following'is a specification.

The object of my invention is toproduce a simple and cheap package or holder for skeins of silk and other thread which will permit the skeins to be handled and marketed without danger of being soiled, while at the same time provision is made for readily ascertaining the color of the silk in the package, for exposing the ends of the strands when they are to be used, and for preventing the strands from becoming tangled up with one another.

The result is attained by a construction which will first be described by reference to the accompanying drawings and will then be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the blank from which the package is formed. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 represent the package in the several stages of its formation. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of the complete package from opposite sides. Fig. 7 is a view of the package after the removal of that end of it which covers the lower end of the skein or that end which is out when it is desired to withdraw strands from the package.

The paper blank from which the package or thread-case is formed is shown developed and unfolded in Fig. 1. The body of the case is formed by the three folds A B O. The center fold A constitutes one side of the case. The two outer folds B O, which are folded over along the dotted lines-5 6 upon one another, form the other side of the case. The side fold O is the full length of the case, the upper end of the case being represented by the top edge of the fold O and the dotted line 1 on the prolongation of that edge. Both the center fold A and the other side fold, B, are extended beyond the line 1, as shown, this line 1 being the line on which this extension is folded down in the process of forming the package. The fold B has a transverse slit 2 in it below the line 1, that portion of it above and beyond the slit forming a flap B independent of the fold B and adapted to fold over on the extension A of the center fold. At the other end of this blank is a transverse line 3 of perforations or slits, along which the lower end of the package is to be torn ofi? when it is desired to expose the ends of the threads. In that portion of the center fold A between the line of perforations and the lower end of the blank is a peep-hole 4 of small dimensions, sufiicient only to permit the color of the skein inside to be inspected and matched.

To form the package, the proceeding is as follows: The flap B is first folded over upon the extension A, as seen in Fig. 2, and then one bight of the skein S is fitted over the flap, the skein extending lengthwise of and straddling it. The flap B and extension A are then folded together along the line 1 down upon the skein, as seen in Fig. 3. The short fold B is then folded over upon the center fold A and the lower portion of the exposed face of the folded extension A, and finally the fold O is folded down upon the fold B as well as the still-exposed upper portion of the extension A, covering both of these parts and being pasted or gummed to the same along the shaded line p, Fig. 4, which represents the line of gum on fold O.

The finished package in shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The skein is completely covered and protected at the end-s and on' all sides, there being merely the peep-hole 4: to permit enough of the skein to be seen to determine its color. The extension A is rigidly fixed to both sides of the case, being formed as an extension of the one side, A, of the case and being gummed or pasted or otherwise permanently attached to the fold C of the other side of the case, thus serving to securely hold in place the skeinholding flap B.

WVhen it is desired to get access to the thread, all that is needed is to tear or twist off the lower end of the case along the line of perforations 3, and the lower end of the skein is at once exposed.

What I claim herein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A skein-package composed of a blank longitudinally folded to form the central portion A and two overlapping side portions B, C, the portions A and B being extended above the top edge of the portion 0, and the portion B being transversely slit along a line 2 below the top of portion (1, so as to form an independent flap B, which is folded over upon the extension A of the center portion A, and constitutes the skein-holder proper, the extension A, after the skein is fitted upon the holderflap B, being folded down along with the flap on a line which is on the prolongation of the top edge of the portion C, and. the portions B C being then folded down thereon, the portion C overlapping the portion B and being gummed thereto and also to the exposed portion of the folded extension A as set forth.

ROBERT A. BONNER.

Witnesses:

W. LEE HELMS, WVM. F. DOYLE. 

